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Spotify is introducing a new "Now Playing View" sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player to go along with the recently released "Your Library" sidebar. The Now Playing View in the right sidebar shows the album art and info of the current song or pod...
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Spotify is introducing a new Your Library sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player. The new Your Library sidebar is rolling out to all desktop users now, so you will be seeing it soon if you haven't already. The new Your Library sidebar improves nav...
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Hey! There has been an update to the Spotify Linux client signatures.Users may see errors linked to missing keys and failed signature verifications for Spotify when updating the system. If this happens to you, this can be fixed by manually adding the...
Having trouble with Spotify on your Desktop app? Here’s what to try first. Search the Community Someone might have asked your question on the Community before.So type your issue into the search box and have a look. Basic troubleshooting Go through th...
I deleted my FB account and tryed to connect but Spotfy don't let me because or do I use my FB (deleted) account or I have create a new account with my (only) email that they say is already in use!!!! Feel like judicial process in the air... The fees...
Spotify always return zero when it is being asked the position of current playing track. Here is the command I run in Ubuntu 15.04 qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get org.mpris.MediaPlayer2...
Hi everyone, I just got updated last night to 15.04, after this, the spotify app does not launch. This is the message i get after run the "spotify" command:spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file...
I've recently ran into issues running spotify on my Ubuntu 14.04LTS installation, it had started randomly and I do believe that I had not done any updates before hand to start the cause of the errors I ran: spotify &>> spotify.txt I have pasted all t...
There are numerous issues with Spotify as a service and its desktop client in particular, but the root of it all is that it doesn't respect user's freedom, at all. For example:- Playback is only allowed through Spotify's proprietary player. No one kn...
Oh man, the problems just continue. Now when I get a spotify link it tries to open to web player. I want it to open in my desktop client as it used to!!!!! Is there a setting for opening the desktop client instead of the web player?
Hello Spotify community, is there, or will there be a way to „black out“ songs in a playlist,that I have already listened to? I have subscribed to a few largeplaylists containing many (+900) songs, but it eventually occurs, that I'mhearing the same s...
Hello, a few weeks ago I updated my Spotify and the search for local files that it used to have is gone. I've been waiting for a new update, but it seems it won't be fixed anytime soon? This is my Spotify/Local Files screenshot at the moment: And thi...
Well... I wish whoever thought this was good was fired xD. How am I supposed to look through 1,000+ songs? Scroll? Lol Nope so until this is fixed i'm done. Bye Spotify hello Pandora
Hi,Ive been using Spotify for some time now and follow quite a lot of artists over time (over 500)Well my problem is:Some of them dont appear on the list when I go to "Your Music" and then "Artists"If i sort them by "recently added" most artists that...
The clients are broken to the point that seems impossible to fix it in a long time. Not that spotify team cares, they stated clearly already that the only thing they care is to squiz dry the costumers, don't giving a crap about their content.So, i've...
Hello, Normally I do not need help with Linux and installing things, let alone fixing them, but for the life of me I have no idea how to make my installs play music again. I looked into the issue and apparently Ubuntu recently updated and got rid of ...
Special thanx to the Spotify Linux people!I am listening to music after a few minutes of following your instruction.Screen Shot BelowIn case you are wondering my current configuration:Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 32-bit2.2.16Dell Lattitude D630Cintel core ...
I see no reason to use this client that spotify has released. There are countless problems that are still being discovered, just look at this forum for examples. If spotify continues in this direction, I will no longer use the service and neither sho...
I'm not sure if this is the right place but....I found a way to edit the song information so the song links. Just edit it in iTunes and the edited info transfers over to spotify
Hello, In my home network I've 4 devices and Spotify is installed on all of them: - A laptop with Spotify 1.0.3 and Windows 8.1;- A laptop with Spotify 0.9.17 and Ubuntu Linux 14.04;- A mobile with Spotify 2.5.0.942 and Android 5.0.2;- A tablet with ...
After the latest update of the Spotify client most tracks are not played anymore.Only the first 2 a 3 seconds and then it stops playing with the following message:"can't play track" With Nuvola player there is no problem Version is 0.9.17.1.g9b85d436...
Hey guys, is it true that with the newest version you can't turn off the "set the same volume level for all tracks" thing? I mean, I can see that it's gone.. I just can't figure out whether it is permanently ON or whether Spotify ditched this functio...
The Spotify activity API or the clients consuming it are extremely buggy. I could do some technical investigation and file a real bug (and would) if you provided access to something useful like your company JIRA. I'd would very much like to see this ...